Kilis Museumvisitor guide.

There are no documents in written historical records concerning the building situated in Kilis city center that functions as a museum today. However, examinations of the structure suggest it was erected in the 1880s. Featuring two floors and a courtyard, the building has two grand entrance doorways. The gate on the southwest leads to administrative offices and staff rooms, while the gate on the southeast provides entrance to exhibition halls. Remaining vacant in subsequent decades with substantial parts falling into ruin, the building was expropriated and restored in 2009; in 2018, the decision was taken to convert it into a museum, and on October 1, 2021, all works were completed and the museum opened to visits. Having hosted numerous civilizations through its rich history, the region illuminates the past with its cultural heritage and opulent architecture, and numerous artifacts unearthed during excavations at Oylum Mound, one of the region's largest mounds, are displayed in the museum. The two-story building serves with archaeology on the first floor and ethnography on the second floor. In the archaeology gallery, numerous pottery vessels, perfume bottles, flasks, bowls, terracotta finds, grinding stones, sculptural heads, tombstones, and press stones from Chalcolithic, Bronze, Iron, Roman, and Byzantine periods; glass tear vials and scent bottles; metal rings, bracelets, and crosses; alongside Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic coins, and caldrons and models portraying soap manufacturing take visitors on a historic journey. Grinding stones, mortar stones, basins, Ottoman and Roman tombstones, stelae, statues, column bases, and sarcophagi are also exhibited. In the second-floor ethnography hall, Ottoman and Republican cepken jackets, fes hats, bindallı gowns; kitchen culture items such as kerosene stoves, large copper trays, deep dishes, plates, and mortars; everyday towels, bundles, wooden clogs, necklaces, bracelets, belts, and buckles; alongside pistols, rifles, bayonets, and ceremonial swords from Ottoman, Republican, and National Struggle eras, accompanied by architectural models representing Kilis mosques, mansions, inns, caravanserais, bedestens, kastels, and a diorama of the Battle of Marj Dabiq provide visitors with a visual feast.